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The Nature of God’s
Love and Grace
Pastor Ronald Molmisa
Generation 3:16 Ministries
1 John 4:7-8
Dear friends, let us love one
another, for love comes from
God. Everyone who loves has
been born of God and knows
God. Whoever does not love
does not know God, because
God is love.
Apart from God,
we cannot
know true love
"You have made
us for yourself, O
Lord, and our
heart is restless
until it rests in
you.“
– St. Augustine
Romans 8:38-39
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“For I am convinced that neither
death nor life, neither angels nor
demons, neither the present nor the
future, nor any powers, neither
height nor depth, nor anything else
in all creation, will be able to
separate us from the love of God
that is in Christ Jesus our Lord.
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FALSE: God only
loves us when
we are good
TRUTH: God does
not accept us
because we are
good, but because
HE IS GOOD!
Romans 5:7-8
Very rarely will anyone die for a
righteous man, though for a
good man someone might
possibly dare to die. But God
demonstrates his own love for us
in this: While we were still
sinners, Christ died for us.
God’s love is
recklessly
EXTRAVAGANT
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Luke 15:20
So he got up and went to his
father. "But while he was still a
long way off, his father saw him
and was filled with compassion
for him; he ran to his son, threw
his arms around him and kissed
him.
Parable of the Vineyard Workers
God’s grace
is fair and
for all!
Matthew 20:13,16
“'Friend, I am not being
unfair to you. Didn't you
agree to work for a
denarius?...So the last will
be first, and the first will be
last.”
(Matthew 20)
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Exodus 3:9
God’s love is
EMOTIONAL
Zephaniah 3:17
The LORD your God is with
you, he is mighty to save. He
will take great delight in you,
he will quiet you with his love,
he will rejoice over you with
singing."
And now the cry of the
Israelites has reached me,
and I have seen the way
the Egyptians are
oppressing them.
Jeremiah 31:3
The LORD appeared to us in
the past, saying: "I have loved
you with an everlasting love; I
have drawn you with lovingkindness.
God’s love is
SACRIFICIAL
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John 3:16-17
Romans 8:32-33
For God so loved the world that he
gave his one and only Son, that
whoever believes in him shall not
perish but have eternal life.
For God did not send his Son into
the world to condemn the world, but
to save the world through him.
He who did not spare his own
Son, but gave him up for us all-how will he not also, along with
him, graciously give us all things?
Who will bring any charge against
those whom God has chosen? It is
God who justifies.
1 John 2:1-2
God’s love
JUSTIFIES us
“…But if anybody does sin, we
have one who speaks to the
Father in our defense--Jesus
Christ, the Righteous One. He is
the atoning sacrifice for our sins,
and not only for ours but also for
the sins of the whole world.
Matthew 17:5
We love God
by loving and
obeying Jesus
While he was still speaking, a
bright cloud enveloped them,
and a voice from the cloud
said, "This is my Son, whom I
love; with him I am well
pleased. Listen to him!"
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John 14:23-24
Jesus replied, "If anyone loves me,
he will obey my teaching. My Father
will love him, and we will come to
him and make our home with him.
He who does not love me will not
obey my teaching. These words you
hear are not my own; they belong to
the Father who sent me.
1 John 4:19-21
We love because he first loved us. If
anyone says, "I love God," yet hates
his brother, he is a liar. For anyone
who does not love his brother, whom
he has seen, cannot love God, whom
he has not seen. And he has given us
this command: Whoever loves God
must also love his brother.
Your love for
others is the
indicator that
God’s love is in
you!
John 13:34,35
A new command I give you: Love
one another. As I have loved
you, so you must love one
another. By this all men will know
that you are my disciples, if you
love one another."
The Nature of God’s
Love and Grace
Pastor Ronald Molmisa
Generation 3:16 Ministries
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